I enjoyed Last Flag Flying, it felt like I was watching a Hal Ashby movie. The cast is great. Cranston is great, but I really liked Carrell who went with a more understated straight man approach, he only had one comedic scene. Dads will like this.

There were three scenes that I thought transcended into greatness: the scene where she promises to keep the gay boyfriend’s secret, the scene where the head nun explains to her that sometimes love is paying attention, and the final scene where she’s talking about feeling emotional driving around your hometown.

Was her friend fucking the math teacher?

Also weird continuity error that doesn’t matter but when she turns 18 the clerk says it’s a year in 1987 that she needs to be born before to buy the cigs, lotto card, and porn but the year is 2003 so it should be 1985.

There were three scenes that I thought transcended into greatness: the scene where she promises to keep the gay boyfriend’s secret, the scene where the head nun explains to her that sometimes love is paying attention, and the final scene where she’s talking about feeling emotional driving around your hometown.

Was her friend fucking the math teacher?

Also weird continuity error that doesn’t matter but when she turns 18 the clerk says it’s a year in 1987 that she needs to be born before to buy the cigs, lotto card, and porn but the year is 2003 so it should be 1985.

There were three scenes that I thought transcended into greatness: the scene where she promises to keep the gay boyfriend’s secret, the scene where the head nun explains to her that sometimes love is paying attention, and the final scene where she’s talking about feeling emotional driving around your hometown.

Was her friend fucking the math teacher?

Also weird continuity error that doesn’t matter but when she turns 18 the clerk says it’s a year in 1987 that she needs to be born before to buy the cigs, lotto card, and porn but the year is 2003 so it should be 1985.

Disagree, but I think if you didn't like it, you would surely hate the book. Given the challenges of the plot, I thought Branagh did an admirable job.

Never read the book, but have seen the Sidney Lumet movie. I just felt the supporting characters felt thin and underwritten while Branagh put more attention on himself. He was good, but the supporting cast felt wasted. I'm also not much of a fan of Josh Gad.

Went to a screening of that a couple weeks ago with the director doing a Q+A afterwards, I liked this one quite a bit. Joachim Trier mentioned how he almost went with doing an 80's John Carpenter like score for the movie, but stuff like Stranger Things prevented him from doing that and he went with a traditional score instead. Which I think worked better anyways. It's a departure from his other movies (Reprise, Oslo August 31st, Louder Than Bombs)

The Villainess has the most intense opening scene I've ever seen in my life by a country mile, then just seems to settle into a good South Korean style revenge flick. The cinematography really is something.

oldorder wrote:The Villainess has the most intense opening scene I've ever seen in my life by a country mile, then just seems to settle into a good South Korean style revenge flick. The cinematography really is something.

Yeah, the first 7 minutes was incredible. Also dug the final sequence on the bus.

The Square was great, the ending was... perplexing as fuck. I really enjoy Ostlund's caricatures of the wealthy and elitists and his satire of society and humanity. Laughed a lot in the beginning, he has a very specific dry cringe inducing humor that I love. The ballroom exhibition scene completely overhauled the tone of the movie and the rest of the film I was in awe, not too many laughs as I feel like that was intentional. I will have to see it again when it's on demand.

What is the disaster artist? Is it a comedy? Dramedy? Fully serious about Tommy's weird confidence? I can't get a read from the trailers but I feel like Greg's book played more towards pointing out how absurd it all was.

thathorates wrote:The Square was great, the ending was... perplexing as fuck. I really enjoy Ostlund's caricatures of the wealthy and elitists and his satire of society and humanity. Laughed a lot in the beginning, he has a very specific dry cringe inducing humor that I love. The ballroom exhibition scene completely overhauled the tone of the movie and the rest of the film I was in awe, not too many laughs as I feel like that was intentional. I will have to see it again when it's on demand.

I loved the Square, I was expecting something more cynical and mean-spirited but the while film felt kind of joyous which I liked. Most of the gag's weren't at anyone's expense really (like the janitor vacuuming up the robert smithson-esque work of art) Also the funniest sex scene I've seen in a film.

I'm more people aren't big on Columbus. Both leads are fantastic and it's so measured and considered. Beautifully shot and just as somber as Lady Bird (though not nearly as funny, which isn't a detriment for their particular film).